The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122251   Message #2679361
Posted By: Royston
13-Jul-09 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Blue Ridge Parkway
Subject: RE: BS: The Blue Ridge Parkway
By the way,

If anyone is ever on I95 for the long-haul, I recommend an overnight break at the Holiday Inn in Tansee, SC. I had the most amazing night there in mid-November. The weather was madness with storms, wind, thunder lightning etc. There were tornados in the region that night, but not in Tansee.

I was going from DC to Orlando and spent a great night eating and drinking at the bar of the hotel with the most brilliant group of travellers that included three feisty ladies of indeterminate age. Two of them were from Cape Cod and had driven to Jacksonville FL to collect their friend and take her back North for a holiday.

Another great character was a guy from West Virginia who still had family and land back home but had married a Floridian and raised a family in Daytona Beach. I go the impression he was a dedicated family man who needed to maintain his personal sanity by regular commutes to WV.

A great evening of rambling conversation between complete strangers was enjoyed by all and the barmaid left me in no doubt that this was par for the course in Tansee!